Sentences with phrase «heating by reducing our emissions»

The US government report claims that we can still controll runaway heating by reducing our emissions.

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That vision of better is spelled out in applications for 30 patents across an array of goods — including EcoRock, a gypsum drywall alternative made of recycled waste that cuts manufacturing emissions by 80 percent; and super-energy-efficient windows that reduce emissions from heating and cooling up to 40 percent.

Newer SAGD plants such as Connacher Oil and Gas's Great Divide have managed to nearly eliminate fresh water use — they use non-potable water from aquifers and recycle it — and reduce GHG emissions by about 20 % compared to the industry average through more efficient burning of natural gas, cogeneration of electricity and reduced heat loss on the steam's journey underground.

These include: • One of the most technically advanced and cleanest smelters in the world which captures 99.9 per cent of sulphur emissions and generates two thirds of the plant's electrical power • A US$ 10m combined heat and power system that will reduce emissions by 90 per cent compared with separate heat and power systems • A vehicle idling reduction programme that now covers 360 vehicles and has resulted in the avoidance of more than two million gallons of fuel and emissions • New, more efficient trucks with fewer emissions

«Our ambitious insulation plan will see the next Labour government take real action against fuel poverty, making homes cheaper to heat, improving people's health by improving our housing, creating new jobs and reducing carbon emissions.

The technology can reduce heating expenses by 10 to 20 percent, with a commensurate drop in greenhouse - gas emissions, according to a spokesman for Carrier, which makes furnaces and air conditioners.

The collar will pay for itself in a year and continue saving you 4 to 9 percent in water - heating costs — as well as reducing carbon emissions by the local electric utility.

Critics argue that albedo modification and other «geoengineering» schemes are risky and would discourage nations from trying to reduce their emissions of carbon dioxide, the heat - trapping gas that comes from the burning of fossil fuels and that is causing global warming by absorbing increasing amounts of energy from sunlight.

As many as 3,331 people annually could die from heat waves by 2080 in New York City alone if no steps are taken to adapt to warming temperatures and reduce emissions, a new study warns.

There are global efforts to reduce the man - made emission of GHG's that likely contribute to global warming by trapping the sun's heat inside the atmosphere, including emission standards and financial penalties on excess emissions.

Professor Drijfhout added: «When a similar cooling or reduced heating is caused by volcanic eruptions or decreasing greenhouse emissions the heat flow is reversed, from the ocean into the atmosphere.

The report, which also warns of major wildlife extinctions and risks to crops from extreme heat, calls for reducing emissions 80 percent from current levels by 2050, which is consistent with the targets in major climate legislation moving through Congress.

Innovative urban design could create increased access to active transport.99 The compact geographical area found in cities presents opportunities to reduce energy use and emissions of heat - trapping gases and other air pollutants through active transit, improved building construction, provision of services, and infrastructure creation, such as bike paths and sidewalks.303, 318 Urban planning strategies designed to reduce the urban heat island effect, such as green / cool roofs, increased green space, parkland and urban canopy, could reduce indoor temperatures, improve indoor air quality, and could produce additional societal co-benefits by promoting social interaction and prioritizing vulnerable urban populations.311, 303

A new heat - exchanger system to capture and recycle waste heat from oxy - fuel furnaces could cut process CO2 emissions by 30 % and nitrous oxide emissions by 90 %, as well enhancing thermal efficiency and significantly reducing operating costs.

Results: The least costly way to manage the heat - trapping effect of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere is to pursue every available option to reduce emissions, according to a study by Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, published in the journal Climatic Change.

Subaru addresses this problem by altering the programming in the Engine Control Module to delay ignition timing, making the exhaust gasses hotter, which helps the catalytic converter heat up sooner, reducing emissions.

The best approach — the «safest and most predictable,» the report says — would be to avoid the need for geoengineering in the first place by drastically reducing emissions of heat - trapping greenhouse gases.

Temperature tends to respond so that, depending on optical properties, LW emission will tend to reduce the vertical differential heating by cooling warmer parts more than cooler parts (for the surface and atmosphere); also (not significant within the atmosphere and ocean in general, but significant at the interface betwen the surface and the air, and also significant (in part due to the small heat fluxes involved, viscosity in the crust and somewhat in the mantle (where there are thick boundary layers with superadiabatic lapse rates) and thermal conductivity of the core) in parts of the Earth's interior) temperature changes will cause conduction / diffusion of heat that partly balances the differential heating.

Thus, if the absorption of the infrared emission from atmospheric greenhouse gases reduces the gradient through the skin layer, the flow of heat from the ocean beneath will be reduced, leaving more of the heat introduced into the bulk of the upper oceanic layer by the absorption of sunlight to remain there to increase water temperature.

Two decades of debate over assigning blame for emissions, legal responsibility for reducing them and allocating per capita rights to use the atmosphere for disposing of heat trapping gases have created a zero - sum game without opportunities for solving problems by creating mutual gains.

Based on DOE analyses, ACEEE estimates that a transition to electric heat pump and condensing gas products in all sizes and applications that make sense would save about 10 quads of energy and reduce carbon dioxide emissions by about 0.5 billion metric tons.

By providing an additional layer of insulation, they significantly reduce a building's need for cooling and heating, making it more energy efficient, saving energy costs, and decreasing its carbon emissions.

In addition to stopping the seas from rising we shall undertake to protect protect our children and future generations of unaborted from the effects of climate change by reducing emissions of carbon dioxide and other heat - trapping pollutants and by taking sensible steps to prepare for changes in climate that are no longer avoidable.

However, depending on the location geothermal heat pumps can reduce energy consumption (operating cost) and correspondingly, emissions by more than 20 percent compared to high - efficiency outside air heat pumps.

Replacing fossil fuels with renewable sources of energy for generating electricity and heat will reduce carbon emissions in 2020 by more than 3.1 billion tons.

Innovative urban design could create increased access to active transport.99 The compact geographical area found in cities presents opportunities to reduce energy use and emissions of heat - trapping gases and other air pollutants through active transit, improved building construction, provision of services, and infrastructure creation, such as bike paths and sidewalks.303, 318 Urban planning strategies designed to reduce the urban heat island effect, such as green / cool roofs, increased green space, parkland and urban canopy, could reduce indoor temperatures, improve indoor air quality, and could produce additional societal co-benefits by promoting social interaction and prioritizing vulnerable urban populations.311, 303

To avoid this level of warming, large emitters such as the United States need to greatly reduce heat - trapping gas emissions by mid century.

And even if the governments of the world act on promises they made in 2015 and drastically reduce greenhouse gas emissions, almost one in two could face the risk of sickness and death by intolerable heat.

If we do nothing to reduce our carbon emissions, scientists project that global sea level could rise as much as nearly two feet (59 centimeters) over recent average levels by the end of this century.14, 15 If, on the other hand, we make significant efforts to reduce heat - trapping emissions, sea - level rise between now and the end of the century could be limited to at most 1.25 feet (38 centimeters).14, 15

► Technical potential is the amount by which it is possible to reduce heat - trapping gas (greenhouse gas) emissions or improve energy efficiency by implementing a technology or practice that has already been demonstrated.

New England states also have opportunities to reduce energy costs and emissions by investing in energy efficiency measures that reduce the use of heating fuels like natural gas, propane, and fuel oil.

The Northeast must decrease electric consumption 36 % by 2030 to reduce emissions from electricity generation and offset additional demand from EVs and heat pumps.

The reduction of heat - trapping gas (greenhouse gas) emissions is stimulated by lowering existing subsidies that have the effect of raising emissions (such as subsidies to fossil fuel use) or by providing subsidies for practices that reduce emissions or enhance sinks (e.g. for insulation of buildings or for planting trees).

• Reduce absolute greenhouse gas emissions (CO2e) by 10 % from scopes 1 & 2 (direct emissions and indirect emissions from the consumption of electricity and heat) • Reduce absolute greenhouse gas emissions (CO2e) by 50 % from scope 3 (indirect emissions and value chain emissions) • Target an overall rate of 80 % recycled aluminum for its products.

It would also reduce planet - warming carbon emissions 23 percent by 2032 for electricity, natural gas, and home - heating oil consumed in the District.

Each time you purchase a product from Organic Style, the amount of carbon emissions from that shipment is offset by rolling funds into the Truck Stop Electrification Program — a program which reduces wasteful diesel emissions at truck stops by creating low cost, electrical alternatives for truckers to power heating, air conditioning and appliances.

Eneco also commits to reducing GHG emissions per household from the natural gas and district heating consumed by its private customers 16 % by 2020 from a 2012 base year.

On Monday, the U.S. government released the 1,560 - page final rule of its so - called Clean Power Plan, which aims to tackle climate change by reducing heat - trapping carbon dioxide emissions from power plants.

It's very clear (thanks to Steve M, Willis etc) that there are issues with both but given the current hyped claim by the «warmers» that the past effects of man - caused global warming have largely been masked by the warming of the oceans and that unless we reduce CO2 emissions now that we won't be able to mitigate future global warming when this «stored heat» eventually comes back out of the oceans and leads to catastrophic effects, I'm very interested in getting to the punchline of this debate on SSTs.

JCM projects use Japanese technological expertise to deploy various approaches to reducing greenhouse gas emissions, such as the installation of energy - efficient transmission lines in Mongolia; the installation of energy - efficient systems in the national hospitals of Vietnam; the installation of energy - efficient refrigeration at commercial food processing centers in Indonesia; the installation of solar photovoltaic systems in the Maldives and Palau; and power generation by waste heat recovery in the cement industry in Indonesia.

Both wetland drying and the increased frequency of warm dry summers and associated thunderstorms have led to more large fires in the last ten years than in any decade since record - keeping began in the 1940s.9 In Alaskan tundra, which was too cold and wet to support extensive fires for approximately the last 5,000 years, 105 a single large fire in 2007 released as much carbon to the atmosphere as had been absorbed by the entire circumpolar Arctic tundra during the previous quarter - century.106 Even if climate warming were curtailed by reducing heat - trapping gas (also known as greenhouse gas) emissions (as in the B1 scenario), the annual area burned in Alaska is projected to double by mid-century and to triple by the end of the century, 107 thus fostering increased emissions of heat - trapping gases, higher temperatures, and increased fires.

Countries included in Annex B of the Protocol (most Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development countries and countries with economies in transition) agreed to reduce their human - induced heat - trapping gas (greenhouse gas) emissions (carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, hydrofluorocarbons, perfluorocarbons, and sulfur hexafluoride) by at least 5 % below 1990 levels in the commitment period 2008 to 2012.

The power plant initiative, proposed last June, would require states to reduce emissions of heat - trapping carbon dioxide by as much as 30 percent below 2005 levels by 2030.

Comprising a variety of possible methods for reducing carbon emissions, one building block of the EPA plan is improving net plant heat rate (NPHR) by 6 % or greater.

It has long been observed that temperatures in cities are higher than in the surrounding countryside, caused, in part, by human structures that reduce albedo and evapo - transpiration, as well as by the effects of waste heat emissions, McCarthy et al 2010.

Going forward, we must continue and extend this momentum as we strive to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by up to 80 per cent, moving away from the use of carbon fuels in transportation, building heating and cooling, and industrial processes and replacing them with clean electricity.

A 2005 executive order requires California to reduce its emissions of heat - trapping greenhouse gases — including carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide and hydrofluorocarbons — to 80 percent below 1990 levels by 2050.

By reflecting more sunlight, cool roofs reduce heat flow into the building, which lowers energy consumption and power - plant emissions if the building is air - conditioned.

While the increase in global temperature could indeed be stopped within decades by reducing emissions, ocean heat content will continue to increase for at least a thousand years after we have reached zero emissions.

On top of the ocean heating, we can look at the outgoing radiation from the atmosphere, by satellite, to see that frequencies associated with water vapor and CO2 have reduced upward emissions.